According to Torrentfreak, Bungie and Elite Boss Tech, a creator of cheating software for Destiny 2 game, have reached an agreement to end a copyright infringement lawsuit; filled by Bungie back in August 2021.
Elite Boss Tech admitted thousands of violations of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions, including a permanent injunction and statutory damages of $13.5 million. Yeah, you read that one right $13.5 MILLION.
Besides the copyright infringement, there are additional allegations including racketeering, fraud, money laundering, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act which may can explain the quantity of money involved.
Anti-cheating is expensive, cheating… even more.
Back in February 2022, Bungie reported how cheating software threaten the gaming experience, mentioning how anti-cheating mitigation technology had cost it “exorbitant amounts of money.”
Elite Boss Tech has accepted that its cheating software injects code into Destiny 2’s copyrighted code bypassing Bungie’s anti-hacking measures, so, the lawsuit determined that each download of Destiny 2 cheats constituted statutory damages of $2,000. Allegedly the cheats were downloaded 6,765 times, that came to a total of $13,530,000.
Surprisingly the company is still selling cheats for other games like Halo Infinite, CSGO, Dead by Daylight, Apex Legends and Warframe… because, yeah, they will need money.
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